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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy focuses on the significant events in the history of India which highlight the core of its past and present, its politics, culture and society. The chapters in the book deal with the struggle which India faced post almost a century of colonization, the components of Indian culture, the return of caste and the revival of religion and the effects of war and globalization. The book is also concerned with providing insights into the life of India's first Prime Minister, the troubled times of emergency during Indira Gandhi's regime, the liberation of Bangladesh and the lives of farmers, musicians, tribals and workers. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy meticulously describes how a country plagued by the evils of discrimination in terms of caste, creed, religion and language rose to form the world's largest democracy. A detailed account of events that shook the foundation of India and the events that helped in joining the broken pieces together is given in this thoroughly researched and well written book. The book was first published in the year 2007. It is available in paperback and the publisher is Picador. This Indian ed edition was published on 14th August, 2008.

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India After Gandhi was chosen as the Book of the Year by the Economist, the Wall Street Journal and Outlook, among others.

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About the Author

Ramachandra Guha is a historian with major interests in the field of social, environmental, political and cricket history. Guha holds a B.A. degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College (1977) and is a post graduate from the Delhi School of Economics with a fellowship from the IIM- Calcutta. He has won the Padma Bhushan Award, R.K. Narayan Prize and the U.K. Cricket Society's Literary Award. Ramachandra Guha is an avid columnist along with being an author of books like the Picador Book of Cricket, Patriots and Partisans and the Wickets in the East.

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A number of books have been written about India post-1947, but nothing quite equals Mr Guha's India After Gandhi. And that is because the author takes a very objective view of what happened in the nation in the period post the death of the Mahatma - he makes no excuses for anyone (although his affection for Nehru is evident) and pulls no punches. But most of all, it is his narration that makes the book the classic it is - there is wonderful flow here, with loads of trivia intermingled with serious discussions, and more than the odd glimpse of ironical humour. Do not get intimidated by its size - this is a book that you will finish within a few days of starting it. Yes, it is THAT good. If there is one book that you must read on modern India, it is this.

Let me tell you first and foremost,i am not a fan of history. As a child, i am sure i was not the only one who found history and my history teacher to be the worst epidemic inflicted on young minds. Young minds that dint relate to rote learning - years and causes and consequences. After having forgotten all of my rote learned history after leaving school over the last 11 years, I came across a narrative from this book from my unscrupulous boss! (only they have the time to read books while we slog away at work and die on our beds as soon as we are home). I am still on my way down this book and I continue to be amazed with amount of research and history that has been condensed into something that is interesting to read, eventhough it happened more than half a century ago! I am discovering answers to questions which were not answered when I was reading these chapters in my political science class in the 12th standard. It was unrelated and boring and definitely not scoring for me. As i read this today, I feel like i would have been able to write a better answer had i read this book. Mr Guha has done a splendid job by combining history with actual incidents and a flow that makes it easy for the mind to absorb.Names that havent been heard off. People who are the back bone that were left out in the usual tradition of praising the Gandhi and Nehru family.

I would recommend anyone including children who is least interested in knowing about historical events that led up to the Indian independence. It doesnt matter which Indian politician you like/dislike from that era, this book is sure likely to change your opinions on a lot of things and put in a fresher perspective history that was in the making after independence.

Good compilation by Ramachandra Guha. Writing style is simple and yet attractive. Gives a broad perspective to understand the present India. This book talks about the events from 1947 to 1985 in detail, but post 1985 history is not discussed in the same manner. It gives only a vague idea about the political events from 1992 to 2005, and post liberalisation economics.Simply, we can call the book as 'India, After Gandhi, Before Rajiv'. However, given the extent it discusses about Nehruvian era and Indira Gandhi's time, we can say that Guha has done an extensive research. Respect...This book really is a treasure...

This is a good book of history narrated with special emphasis to conflicts. In his foreword, Ram Guha says that conflicts in India can be categorized as that as arising on the basis of religion, region, language, gender and caste. In the next 530 or so pages, he looks at post independence history and documents conflicts in a chronological order.

The personalities of Gandhi, Nehru, Indira, Sheikh Abdullah get decent coverage. Non-political relationships of these personalities are not mentioned. For example, there is only one sentence about Kamala Nehru, nothing at all about Gandhi's wife or children. There is one, sarcastic in my opinion, statement about Edwina Mountbatten. This is a dispassionate narration of history, can be used also as reference material. Conspiracy theories and urban legends are not mentioned. So Lal Bahadur Shastri's and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee's deaths are just written as data points, nothing more.

One disadvantage is the abundance of information and becomes quite overwhelming on the readers memory. I think it is unavoidable in a history book of this nature. If someone wants to get a birds eye overview of the entire 1946-1990 period, then this is the book to buy.

For me born about 37 years ago, Post independence Indain history was merely the Social Studies classes that I had attended from class 1 to class 5. Rajagopalchari was merely 1st governor General of independent India, Jaiprakash Narayan Social worker, Sardar Patel First home minister, Nehru as potrayed on T.V and as first Prime mninister of India and Mahatma Gandhi as father of Nation. Indira Gandhi First woman Prime Minister of India, Sheik Abdulla father of Farooq Abdulla, B.R Ambedkar, V.P Menon, 72 aggression, chinese agression, Kashmir issue.

This book gives me an detailed insight of the contributions these greats and some not so great individuals and events that have contributed. Now I cherish the independence,the Fundamental rights and secularism in this country which was a result of their efforts.

Well researched and compiled for easy read. the Book is written like a story book where India is the protagonist. Flow is superb Does not limit itself to politics also takes through business, Indias development also how the indians were entertained.

Though the book was mammoth in size but it ws a interseting reading.I felt it was linient towards Nehru, which I may be wrong.I would say a fantastic contibution to Indian History.

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